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You can get your WD My Passport drive working well with Time Machine in no time.

Time Machine 1. Turn on your Mac and log in.

Your Mac May at this Stage Give you a Message.

Go into Disk Utility.

Select your WD My Passport External Drive.

Look at the top of the Disk Utility screen and click on Erase.

On the Erase screen.

Open up Time Machine.

Tell Time Machine To Use your WD My Passport External Hard Drive.

And connect up the WD My Passport drive.

Click on the Time Machine icon.

Click on Backup Now.

When the backup is complete Eject your WD My Passport drive.

Drive 1. Assuming your WD My Passport drive is connected all the time to Time Machine.

Time Machine backups are incremental forever.

When your backup drive is full, Time Machine will delete the oldest backup.

If you dont have your WD My Passport drive plugged in all the time.

My Passport Not Showing Up When Plugged In For Mac Version Of

Time Machine 1. The For Mac version of WD My Passport as delivered is NTFS formatted.

An Error Occurred While Copying Files.

Or a partition (section) of a much larger drive large to make your backup to.

And enough space for Time Machine to make your follow on backups over time.

Time Machine checks to make sure your Mac is connected to power before it does a back up.

Be sure your WD My Passport drive is formatted to HFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system before you start.

Western Digital sells a for Mac version WD My Passport For Mac.

You may need an adaptor cable depending on the age of your Mac.

If it does, say yes.

If there.

Its often because you have not selected the My Passport drive at the top.

Partition WD My Passport For Mac, Teach Yourself in 10 Steps.

Time Machine backup and the second 1TB part of your drive for documents.

You.

Passport drive listed as available for you to use with Time Machine.

Did you decide to create a partition to do a Time Machine backup to The name you gave to that partition on the drive will also be in the list.

Then Time Machine works out what has changed and takes a back up of the changes.

See it in a finder window but cannot use it for Time Machine.

Time Machine till its formatted in a way that is compatible with Time Machine.

If that doesnt show anything type backup without the quotes.

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My Passport For Mac Not Showing Up When Plugged In